Since the last official patch, the patch adds Drox Guild quests (IotA), adds new race services: order planetary goods (Hive), call for recruits (Drakk), retraining (Cortex), buy bombs (Brunt), enhance components (Utopian), and spying (Shadow), balances the races to be more unique, and fixes a bunch of other minor issues.

It seems I've hit a size limit, so the following is truncated a little.

1.024 change list:

fixed Utopian enhanced sockets not working until save/resume (CaptainWinky) (IotA)

ceasefire now clears enemies and projectiles better (wrestless)

now normal happiness drop of crew is half as much as normal if the same race as you

Shadow's spy trait now affects espionage and sabotage

now Shadow has a resistance to being spied on

increased start alliance time by 25% (IotA)

increased Drox Guild quest xp rewards by 50% (IotA)

increased Drox Guild quest credits rewards by 100% (IotA)

increased ancient quest chances by another 50% (IotA)

tripled beam station firing times (Steve) (IotA)

fixed fighter base playing lots of spawn sounds when no new fighters emerged (Steve) (IotA)

fighters from monster fighter bases now attack the player correctly (Steve) (IotA)

now get warning if try to reduce power load on something that uses none

no longer use credits if can't reduce power load because uses none or already reduced as much as possible (Yindo)

no longer show race specific crew slot in no life mode (Tuidjy) (IotA)

increased asteroid chances by 50%

no longer have Drox bonus orders if playing with Drox involvement higher than minimal (IotA)

1.023 change list:

can now order planetary goods from Hive planets

can now call for recruits on Drakk planets (costly and still have to do a recruit quest though)

can now retrain your crew points at Cortex planets

can now buy bomb type of quests from the brunt (player gets to choose the victim race)

you can now pay Utopian planets to try to enhance your components with added sockets (IotA)

can now pay Shadow to do your spying for you (expensive, they are better at spying, they will get mad at you if they are caught)